Multilingual mathematics dictionary, Grade R to 6: English; Afrikaans; isiZulu; isiXhosa; siSwati; isiNdebele; Setswana; Sepedi; Sesotho; Tshivenḓa; Xitsonga

This glossary of terms compiled by the TCS of a school subject in all the official languages is the first of its kind. Approximately 1,000 entries have been documented for this project. The team who worked on the terms considers it part of a learning process – also for themselves. The different collaborator groups, the team members of which are all first language speakers of the particular target languages, added term equivalents.
Part of the process was to supply the collaborators with definitions and/or example sentences for the English terms. The terms were researched in different dictionaries and on the Internet, and sometimes a new definition was written which included elements of the different dictionaries that were consulted. All the dictionaries that were consulted in the research phase were meticulously acknowledged on the database. The aim of documenting the information in existing dictionaries and providing new definitions was to assist the collaborators in supplying the equivalents in the indigenous languages. In cases where there were no existing terms in the indigenous languages, a new term had to be coined. The definitions and example sentences are not included in this edition.
It is planned that English definitions will be included in a following edition.